'Islam in Saudi Arabia'
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Professor of History David Commins’ latest book named a Top 25 Book of 2015
Islam in Saudi Arabia, written by Professor of History David Commins, was named a Best Book of 2015 by Foreign Affairs magazine.
The book chronicles Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabi movement as well as the diversity and dynamism of religion in the country’s society, politics, culture and everyday life. In its review, Foreign Affairs wrote, “[Commins] has produced a succinct and insightful survey of puritanical Wahhabi Islam in Saudi Arabia” and calls Commins’ writing “scrupulously nonjudgmental.”
Commins was invited to author the book by publisher IB Tauris as part of its “Islam In" series. Commins’ other books are The Gulf States: A Modern History, The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia, Historical Dictionary of Syria and Islamic Reform.
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Published January 6, 2016